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Code folding, syntax highlighting, automatic indetation, templates and autocompletion are elements commonly used to actually //fix the language// used. See how C++/Java/C# programmers become bound to the IDEs they use -- because the code is only in part written by them -- the machine does most of the work. But if the machine can do that work when the code is written, it can as well do it when the code is parsed -- hence all the "generated" parts of code are really superfluous and serve only presentation -- not meaning. It's better to design the markup right from the start, than to patch it with additional functionalities of the editing program. That's what I believe, at least.
With code folding there lurks another trap -- it's easy to fall for the "myth of experienced user" and start designing "normal" features and "advanced" ones, that are normally hidden and must be enabled in some secret way -- or even become enabled automatically when the program somehow decides that the user became experienced. But there is no such thing as "general experience" -- the user learns to use particular features of a program. If the features are hidden or simplified, how is the user supposed to become experienced with them? The newbie/expert divide is totally artifical and never works as intended.
-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-02-24
Version Date Modified Size Author Changes ... Change note
24 16-Oct-2007 15:19 11.61 kB ChuckSmith to previous restore
23 16-Oct-2007 12:53 11.624 kB 201.12.178.33 to previous | to last
22 01-Jun-2007 16:31 11.61 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last two angle brackets for placeholder is fine
21 05-May-2007 14:04 11.313 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last changing markup here would make distinction clear between plugin
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